From Breitbart - Law enforcement along the United States-Mexico border and in California’s border communities are finding the deadliest of drugs, fentanyl, in just about everything from bags of Skittles to vaping pens.
As Biden’s administration considers fighting to keep mask mandates
on Americans traveling on domestic commercial flights and buses, law enforcement officials say they are witnessing firsthand an epidemic far greater than the Chinese coronavirus.
“We’re finding fentanyl in everything,” Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin said at a meeting with Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ken Calvert (R-CA) this week.
Fentanyl, of which two milligrams can kill one person, is primarily manufactured in China before being flown into Mexico where the Mexican drug cartels then traffic the drug into American communities via the nation’s porous southern border.
Many of the factories where fentanyl is laced into drugs sit right on the border. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco revealed that in some cases, the Mexican drug cartels are now making their deadly product in the U.S.
“We’re finding fentanyl laced into all the hard drugs. It’s getting into vaping pens,” Hestrin said. “At the same time, we’re having a counterfeit pill issue. The Mexican drug cartels are producing pills that look exactly like OxyContin. They’re made using fentanyl and the drug dealers are selling them on Snapchat.”
In one recent instance, Hestrin said a drug dealer on Snapchat purporting to be selling Miami Marlins jerseys with the number “30” on the back was actually selling M30 pills made with fentanyl. “A parent would think their child is buying a jersey, but they’re actually being sold OxyContin with fentanyl,” Hestrin said.
Border Patrol Agent Mark Dunbar said fentanyl is being trafficked across the border in a number of ways — in trucks, on a border crossers’ person, as well as through mountains and over hills. Specifically, the drug is flowing up to southern California’s biggest city, San Diego.
“Fentanyl can be laced through any narcotic. Some agents have seen where fentanyl pills are hidden in bags of skittles,” Dunbar said. “People who ingest fentanyl pass out and then the kids around them will get into it and overdose and die as well.” “The first-time user is the one who is overdosing,” he said.
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